
Storage Advisors ยป Living Loving MAID:
MAID? You sure you didn't terminally typo RAID?
MAID stands for Massive Arrays of Idle Disks. The term was first coined in the January 2002 whitepaper of the same name, created by Messrs. Colarelli, Grunwald and Neufeld at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Oh. Right, I guess not. Anyhow – read the article – interesting futuretech in there.